Mason Jar Mummy Candle Holders

Hey friends,

Happy Sunday! I have a super cute, super easy Halloween craft to share with you today. This is not my original idea, it is one I got from Pinterest...gosh I love that site...and it can also be a fairly cheap project as well. 

They are mason jar mummy candle holders!! 

First things first. What you need for supplies are: googly eyes, rolled gauze, mod podge, and a foam brush to paint the mod podge on and a mason jar or any jar will do! I plan on making another big one once my strawberry jelly jar is all gone. I also think that baby jar mummies would also be super cute!

I don't have pictures for this first step but the first thing I did was wrapped the gauze around the jar to see how much I would use and then i cut it. After that I went down the whole strip of gauze and spread it apart just by pulling in opposite directions to get that frayed, mummy look. 

After this is done, start from the bottom of your jar and add mod podge to your jar and glue the gauze around as you go. You'll want to overlap the layers just slightly. When you're gluing, you want a good amount of mod podge so that the material sticks to it.

Here's the finished product of the first few steps. You'll want to let the glue dry so that it's easier to work with when you add glue on top of the gauze. 

Once your glue has dried, I take my paint brush again and get a good amount of mod podge on it and dab the glue on all over the gauze. Get a good amount on! Do not paint using strokes b/c as you'll find, if you use strokes, it will pull the material(possible off your jar) every which way and it's just less fight if you dab it on. 

Let this top layer dry and when it does, you'll find that the gauze has stiffened and you won't have to worry about destroying the gauze while handling it. Then I used my hot glue gun and added two googly eyes. You can also use the mod podge but this dries quicker so that's why I used hot glue. 

Add a tealight or votive candle and you're all set for a spooky(yet cute) candle holder that gives a soft glow of candlelight!

I think these are so cute!!

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and happy crafting friends!

Dandelion Blowing in the Wind T-Shirts!

Hi everyone, 

Hope you all had a great weekend and got well rested and made it through your Monday all right. This past Sunday was another crafty Sunday for Tiff and I and we got together to work on another pinterest project. 

Dandelion t-shirts and totes!!

We started with our totes for our test trial and in case we goofed up. If we goofed up it wouldn't be on our main projects, the t-shirts. 

So our supply list was as follows:

• T-shirts
• Totes
• White, Black, and Green Fabric Paint
• Glitter fabric paint
• Loofah
• Paintbrushes
• Cardboard to protect inside t-shirt. You can buy a t-shirt form from Hobby Lobby or use just a cereal box. 

 We started with the white paint and dipped the loofah in the paint and just bounce it up and down and in somewhat circular motions to form the main part of your dandelion. Until you get the hang of the technique, just use a little bit of paint at a time.

 Make sure you think about where you are going to put your design as we were laughing about how we didn't want to end up with a giant white blob on an inappropriate spot. Starting in one of the bottom corners of your shirt is a good way to go.

 Next draw a green stem with one of your paintbrushes. We drew ours at a slant so it looked like it was blowing in the wind.

 Then using a small paintbrush, make some dandelion seedlings blowing off the dandelion in the wind. Make them go across your shirt and maybe over your shoulder and onto your back.

 Then with a thin paintbrush, add a small black stem to each little seedling. This is a must as it gives the design a much more life-like look to it.

 After this is all done, the white paint is pretty dry. You can then add some sparkly paint. The best way to apply this is with a paint brush and move it in circular motions. If you just sweep it the glitter will kind of clump together and won't be so even. Make sure you add a little bit of glitter to each seedling as well.

 Voila!! Pretty simple!!

 Here's all four of our finished items drying on the deck a bit.

These shirts are so pretty and easy to make and perfect for the summer time!! Hope you've enjoyed this fun tutorial and happy craftin'!!

Pinterest Monster Bookmarks

Evening everyone!

I'm back again before the first day of April ends. Some of you may have remembered/read that I made some creative goals for myself in the year 2012. One of those goals was to do one non-scrapping craft project every month. I've gotten a little bit behind on that. So far I've done the paper towel holder sticker organizer. So here's me trying to catch myself up again. I've been going off of my pinterest craft board for my projects and so the one I did tonight was to make monster bookmarks. These are so easy to make and I have some really old leftover paper from a scrapbook pack of paper from my first scrapping days that I just haven't a clue what I'd ever use this paper for. It's just too psychedelic for me!! But...I did think it would be perfect for these little monsters. Check them out!!

I got a little crazy with the eye directions!! I first made the blue monster and if you look closely, you can see his eyes aren't perfectly round....this is me trying to cut them out myself and then I realized, "what the heck am I doing? I have a CRICUT!!!" Silly me...

One of the monsters eating the corner of a book page. 

So that's it tonight. These lil' guys will help keep my favorite crafty-pages-to-try bookmarked for me to find easily and if you want to make these yourself click here.

Have a great night and a great new week!!